The Illinois House has voted to override Governor Pat Quinn’s amendatory veto to HB 183, a law passed by both houses in May, which would give Illinois residents their constitutional right to carry a concealed firearm. The override to Quinn’s
On Tuesday, the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard published a joint editorial with a simple message: Kill the immigration bill. Writing at National Review and the Weekly Standard, Messrs. Rich Lowry and Bill Kristol write simply that, “passing any version of the
The number two Democrat in the Senate, Dick Durbin (D-IL), has been a staunch ally for President Obama’s massive takeover of American’s healthcare, but now Durbin has told WLS Chicago that Obamacare (the Affordable Healthcare Act) needs changes and improvements. Durbin’s
Sources on Capitol Hill have told Breitbart News that, on Thursday, the House likely will make another attempt to pass the Farm Bill. Last month, GOP Leadership suffered a rare defeat when the Farm Bill failed on the House floor
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will keynote a major Tea Party event during Labor Day weekend in Orlando, FL, which also happens to be the home state of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Rubio recently lost the trust of many conservatives over
USA Today recently put a negative spin on Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s position about the Senate’s immigration reform bill. The paper characterized her point as an attempt to “kill the immigration overhaul,” yet her points were more nuanced than
Democrats and activist groups on the left used the Washington Post‘s Greg Sargent to publicly circulate a target list of House Republicans whom Democrats plan to pressure to try to get the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill or something
Conservative Washington Post columnist George Will said the Obama Administration’s decision to waive Obamacare’s employer mandate for another year may have handed Republicans opposed to the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill a silver bullet to defeat the legislation. On Sunday,
The American Action Network, an establishment GOP advocacy group, has decided it will air a new television ad on Monday called “Surge” that aims to depict the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill that just passed the Senate as tough on
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) told Breitbart News he is confident House Republicans as a whole will stop the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and take up an alternative aimed at securing the border before handling anything else. “I can’t
On Monday, Pope Francis tweeted from his @Pontifex account: We pray for a heart which will embrace immigrants. God will judge us upon how we have treated the most needy. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) July 8, 2013 The pontiff’s message,
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Martin (pictured above between David Axeldrod and ABC’s Jeff Zeleny) is no stranger to controversy. His partisan attacks against the GOP (including private citizens) have been well-documented. Monday, the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin took issue with
As House Republicans continue to focus on separate border security and enforcement bills instead of the Senate’s comprehensive approach to immigration, some in the mainstream media are acknowledging that the political momentum behind the Senate bill is fading. No Sunday
Now that the Senate has passed its amnesty legislation, attention turns next to the House, which returns Monday for three weeks of work before the month-long August recess. Supporters of the Senate bill had hoped action on the issue in
(AP) Immigration, student loan top congressional agendaBy DONNA CASSATAAssociated PressWASHINGTONRepublicans and Democrats will put good will to the test when Congress returns this week to potentially incendiary fights over nominations, unresolved disputes over student loans and the farm bill, and
Recent revelations about the scope of the government’s domestic surveillance programs are fueling new privacy legislation by Congress. “The revelations offer an opening for updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which would require law enforcement to get a warrant
Secret court rulings have allowed the NSA to gather phone data on millions of Americans, all hinging on the definition of the word “relevant.” This change in the law came from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a secret body of
Critics are charging pro-choice Democrats in New York’s state Senate with a scheme to ram through an abortion rights amendment during the Jewish Sabbath in order to prevent Sen. Simcha Felder, a pro-life Orthodox Jew, from casting a vote. The
On “Fox News Sunday” host John Roberts interviewed Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) about his upcoming announcement on his future plans, his characterization of “mob rule” during the Texas Senate filibuster of an abortion safety bill, and his remarks about
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is not only determined to bring the abortion legislation that was torpedoed last month by the filibuster of Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis back to the legislature, he is utterly confident that the legislation will pass.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said on CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday that he desperately wants the House to take up the Senate’s immigration reform package. “We hope and pray that our Republican colleagues will take up the issue,” he
On Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) slammed Democrats in the Senate for tossing “a bunch of candy” at border security in order to shore up wavering Republican support. “What the Senate just passed was, again,
On Sunday, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID), an immigration reform advocate in the House of Representatives, said that the Republicans had to do immigration reform right, or it wouldn’t be worth doing. “If we don’t do it right politically,” he said
Former President George W. Bush again offered support for the concept of immigration reform–with a caveat of skepticism for the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill in an interview with ABC News’ This Week that aired on Sunday. “I think
Appearing in a pre-taped interview on ABC’s This Week, former president George W. Bush stated that he believed that the Senate immigration reform bill could pass the House. “Sometimes, it takes time for some of these complex issues to evolve.
